The Yadkin Ripple is a weekly newspaper based in Yadkinville, North Carolina.

It shares a publisher and its production staff with The Tribune in Elkin and is printed at The Mount Airy News.

The paper remained in the Rutledge family until 2002 when it was sold to Mid-South Management Company Inc. of Spartanburg, South Carolina.

[3] A week after the sale, Rebel Good, publisher of The Ripple and The Tribune, left his position along with a number of senior staffers.

[6] Later in 2017, Champion Media sold its Mount Airy area newspapers to Adams Publishing Group.